If you are looking for a job, you will know that many recruiters use LinkedIn to vet candidates for interviews, so your outdated information on the platform could be the difference between securing your next job. or being passed over for a more suitable candidate.
LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft in 2016[1] for an eye-watering cost of $26.2 billion and has reported steady growth year-on-year. It obviously has a lot of value to those looking for a job in the job market.
But keeping up to date online is often a hassle. Often job seekers must maintain the classic version of their resume as well as managing their LinkedIn presence, consistently updating both.
Resume Lab surveyed 1,001 workers in the US. It wanted to find out how often Americans are updating LinkedIn and their resumes[2] during the pandemic?
The survey uncovered that almost everyone (99.1%) of respondents have a resume, yet only two in three (65.1%) have LinkedIn profiles.
Workers reporting the highest salaries ($80k or more) reported updating their LinkedIn profiles the most often in the past year.
Managers report updating their LinkedIn profiles more often than their traditional resumes (3.6 times per year compared to 3.4 times per year for their traditional resume).
And managers update their resumes more often than non-managers who update their LinkedIn profiles only 2.2 times per year, and traditional resumes 2.5 times per year.
Although 54.3% of people reported that they have updated their resume within the last three months, 45.4% reported having outdated information on their LinkedIn profile, and 33.3% on their resume.
Over 50% said the reason that they updated was specifically motivated by the pandemic.
If two out of three Americans are